Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus for reproducing information from an optical information recording medium or for recording information onto an optical information recording medium, is provided with a first light source for emitting first light flux having a first wavelength; a second light source for emitting second light flux having a second wavelength, the first wavelength being different from the second wavelength; a converging optical system having an optical axis and a diffractive portion, and a photo detector; wherein in case that the first light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux, and in case that the second light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the second light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted

Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus for reproducing information from an optical information recording medium or for recording information onto an optical information recording medium, is provided with a first light source for emitting first light flux having a first wavelength; a second light source for emitting second light flux having a second wavelength, the first wavelength being different from the second wavelength; a converging optical system having an optical axis and a diffractive portion, and a photo detector; wherein in case that the first light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux, and in case that the second light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the second light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted

Abstract: In a single plate type solid-state image pickup device having a color filter with primary color filters, gray filters are disposed at specific pixels of the arrangement of the primary color filters, whereby variation of the sense of resolution with respect to color can be prevented, and outline emphasis is applied to achieve an excellent image.

Abstract: An optical system includes an objective lens; and a plastic coupling lens to change a divergent angle of a light flux emitted from a light source and is structured such that the light flux emitted from the light source passes through both of the coupling lens and the objective lens when the light flux is converged onto an optical information recording medium and the reflected light flux reflected from the optical information recording medium passes through the objective lens without passing through the coupling lens when the reflected light flux is detected by a photo-detector. A ring-shaped diffractive structure is formed on at least one surface of the coupling lens and the diffractive structure generates an under-spherical aberration when a light flux having a longer wavelength comes in, and the coupling lens has a positive refractive power as a whole.

Abstract: An objective lens of an optical pickup apparatus converges a divergent light flux onto an information recording surface. The following conditional formula is satisfied: |?SA1/?U|·|?U|+|?SA2/?T|·|?T|?0.07 ?rms where ? represents a wavelength of a light source, ?SA1/?U represents a change of a spherical aberration for an object-to-image distance change ?U (|?U|?0.5 mm) and ?SA2/?T represents a change of spherical aberration for a temperature change ?T (|?T|?30° C.), the object-to-image distance is a distance between the light source (a light emitting point) and the information recording surface.

Abstract: A recycling method of a part for an image forming apparatus, the part being used in the image forming apparatus and provided with a thermoplastic resin member at least in a part thereof is provided which includes: recovering the part for the image forming apparatus; disassembling the recovered part for the image forming apparatus; retrieving the thermoplastic resin member from the disassembled part for the image forming apparatus; and performing heat processing to the retrieved thermoplastic resin member to recycle the member.

Abstract: An objective lens of an optical pickup apparatus converges a divergent light flux onto an information recording surface. The following conditional formula is satisfied: |?SA1/?U|·|?U|+|?SA2/?T|·|?T|?0.07 ?rms where ? represents a wavelength of a light source, ?SA1/?U represents a change of a spherical aberration for an object-to-image distance change ?U (|?U|?0.5 mm) and ?SA2/?T represents a change of spherical aberration for a temperature change ?T (|?T|?30° C.), the object-to-image distance is a distance between the light source (a light emitting point) and the information recording surface.

Abstract: An objective lens for use in an optical pickup apparatus for conducting recording and/or reproducing information for an optical information recording medium, has a lens section shaped in an approximate circle and including a flange section; and a projecting section integrally provided to the lens section. The objective lens satisfies the following conditional formulas: 0.5?A?2.0, 0.3A?B?1.7A where A is a diameter (mm) of the lens section when the lens section is viewed from an direction of an optical axis, and B is a width (mm) of the projecting section when the connecting section is viewed from the direction of the optical axis.

Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus for reproducing information from an optical information recording medium or for recording information onto an optical information recording medium, is provided with a first light source for emitting first light flux having a first wavelength; a second light source for emitting second light flux having a second wavelength, the first wavelength being different from the second wavelength; a converging optical system having an optical axis and a diffractive portion, and a photo detector; wherein in case that the first light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux, and in case that the second light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the second light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted

Abstract: A recycle developer bearing body which is an effective recycle of a used developer bearing body, helps effective utilization of resources, and does not result in image quality degradation, such as developer concentration unevenness. In the recycle developer bearing body, even when scars or other defects are developed on a developer bearing surface of the developer bearing body from previous use, a surface roughness Ra of the developer bearing surface having the scars or other defects of the developer bearing body is 0.8 ?m or more.

Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus for reproducing information from an optical information recording medium or for recording information onto an optical information recording medium, is provided with a first light source for emitting first light flux having a first wavelength; a second light source for emitting second light flux having a second wavelength, the first wavelength being different from the second wavelength; a converging optical system having an optical axis and a diffractive portion, and a photo detector; wherein in case that the first light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux, and in case that the second light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the second light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted

Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus for recording/reproducing information onto/from a first and a second optical information recording media respectively having a first and second protective layers with a thickness of t1 and t2, using first light beams having a wavelength ?1, the optical pickup apparatus comprises, a first light source having the wavelength of ?1, a first and a second objective optical elements, wherein when recording/reproducing the information onto/from the first optical information recording media, one of the first and the second objective optical lenses is used to condense the first light beams onto a first information recording surface and when recording/reproducing the information onto/from the second optical information recording medium, the other objective optical lens is used to condense the first light beams onto a second information recording surface, wherein the thickness of t1 and the thickness of t2 satisfy a following formula, 2.5<t2/t1.

Abstract: An optical system includes an objective lens; and a plastic coupling lens to change a divergent angle of a light flux emitted from a light source and is structured such that the light flux emitted from the light source passes through both of the coupling lens and the objective lens when the light flux is converged onto an optical information recording medium and the reflected light flux reflected from the optical information recording medium passes through the objective lens without passing through the coupling lens when the reflected light flux is detected by a photo-detector. A ring-shaped diffractive structure is formed on at least one surface of the coupling lens and the diffractive structure generates an under-spherical aberration when a light flux having a longer wavelength comes in, and the coupling lens has a positive refractive power as a whole.

Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus for reproducing information from an optical information recording medium or for recording information onto an optical information recording medium, is provided with a first light source for emitting first light flux having a first wavelength; a second light source for emitting second light flux having a second wavelength, the first wavelength being different from the second wavelength; a converging optical system having an optical axis and a diffractive portion, and a photo detector; wherein in case that the first light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux, and in case that the second light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the second light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted

Abstract: An objective lens for use in an optical pickup apparatus for conducting recording and/or reproducing information for an optical information recording medium, has a lens section shaped in an approximate circle and including a flange section; and a connecting section integrally provided to the lens section. The objective lens satisfies the following conditional formulas: 0.5?A?2.0, 0.3A?B?1.7A where A is a diameter of the lens section when the lens section is viewed from an direction of an optical axis, and B is a width of the connecting section when the connecting section is viewed from the direction of the optical axis.

Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus comprising: a first light source emitting first light flux having wavelength ?1 (380 nm??1?450 nm); a second light source emitting second light flux having wavelength ?2 (600 nm??2?700 nm); a third light source emitting third light flux having wavelength ?3 (750 nm??3?800 nm); a first divergent angle-converting element through which the first light flux passes; a second divergent angle-converting element through which the second light flux and the third light flux pass; and an objective optical element through which the first, second, and third light fluxes pass. Optical magnification m2 of the second divergent angle-converting element for the second light flux and optical magnification m3 of the second divergent angle-converting element for the third light flux are different from each other.

Abstract: An optical pickup device wherein at least a high density disc such as HD-DVD is compatible with DVD, and securing an amount of light is compatible with correction of chromatic aberration. An a correcting element representing an optical system used for the aforementrioned optical pickup device.

Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus for reproducing information from an optical information recording medium or for recording information onto an optical information recording medium, is provided with a first light source for emitting first light flux having a first wavelength; a second light source for emitting second light flux having a second wavelength, the first wavelength being different from the second wavelength; a converging optical system having an optical axis and a diffractive portion, and a photo detector; wherein in case that the first light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted ray of the first light flux, and in case that the second light flux passes through the diffractive portion to generate at least one diffracted ray, an amount of n-th ordered diffracted ray of the second light flux is greater than that of any other ordered diffracted

Abstract: An objective optical element for use in an optical pickup apparatus, includes an objective lens to converge the light flux emitted from the first and second light sources; and an optical functional surface including a common region and an exclusive region. When a first optical information medium is used, a sine condition unsatisfied-amount whose value is maximum exists on the common region. The following formula is satisfied: 0.5?COMA2/COMA1?1.0 where COMA1 is a coma aberration (?1 rms) when a light flux goes slantingly to be incident with a view angle of 1° onto the objective optical element when the first optical information medium is used, and COMA2 is a coma aberration (?2 rms) when a light flux goes slantingly to be incident with a view angle of 1° onto the objective optical element when the second optical information medium is used.

Abstract: A method for regenerating a charging member for an electrophotographic system that is pressed against a surface of a body to charge the body, a charging member and a device for regenerating a charging member are provided. The method includes a step of applying heat treatment to the charging member. A used charging member, whose resistance is not decreased enough to recover a required chargeability by cleaning the surface thereof, can easily be regenerated and reused.